The malaria-carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae’s days may be numbered. Scientists have devised a gene drive that wiped out the mosquito’s populations in lab tests.

Giraffes get their characteristic patterns of spots from mom — but not from their dads, a new study finds.

The San Clemente loggerhead shrike lives on San Clemente Island off the California coast. This mild-looking songbird delivers potentially fatal shakings to small vertebrates — such as the dead lizard it now holds.

As in a honeybee hive, the queen in a naked mole rat colony is the only mom. She gives birth to all of the young. But she’ll need child-care help for all her babies. And she’ll get it from the other females, especially if they’ve dined on her poop, new data show.